The new version of "Armageddon" is a large-scale historical drama that has been broadcast for several months and can be described as rave reviews. Generally speaking, the filming of historical dramas such as the Liberation War strives to be true and objective, so that the audience can see it comfortably, resonate, and understand the difficulties of our army's soldiers during the revolutionary period.
Compared with the old version of the classic "Armageddon" trilogy, the new version of "Armageddon" although the picture is clearer, but also received higher ratings, the overall rating is relatively high, but there is still a large gap with the classic, mainly reflected in the character image, deviating from history, or not in line with the real historical figure image.
Liberation War dramas, especially large-scale historical dramas such as the three major battles, we cannot appear like the "hand-torn devils" and "Yan Shuangying who can't penetrate the knife and gun" like the filming of anti-Japanese dramas, such mythical positive characters, or deliberately demean negative characters, which not only cannot play an educational role, but also easily bias the audience and cannot achieve the overall effect.
In the new version of "Armageddon", most of the characters are more in line with the historical image, and some details are also more in place, such as the "whirlwind commander" Han Xianchu The whole character is displayed very well. It is worth mentioning that in the new version of "Armageddon", some characters are not very consistent with the historical image, or even seriously inconsistent, there are mainly two people, which is easy to bias the audience.
Fan Hanjie, who "does not respect" old Jiang
Fan Hanjie is the elder brother of Huangpu Phase I, and Chiang Kai-shek has more respect for him. In 1927, the Kuomintang Ninghan was diverted, Fan Hanjie left Wuhan for Nanjing, because he was from Huangpu, Chiang Kai-shek was very happy with his arrival, entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and became the first division commander among the graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy.
During the Liberation War, Fan Hanjie was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to garrison Jinzhou and served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General" and director of the Jinzhou Command Post. In the Armageddon drama, Fan Hanjie had a feeling of "flattery" in front of Chiang Kai-shek, obeying his words and appearing a little younger in age.
Jinzhou was besieged, Liao Yaoxiang's corps and Hou Jingru's corps were both blocked by our army, and when our army launched a fierce attack on Jinzhou, Fan Hanjie appeared to be a bit out of shape when the situation was not good. There is a shot of Fan Hanjie holding a red wine bottle and smashing it against the portrait of Chiang Kai-shek hanging on the wall, which is a great disrespect to the leadership of his own leadership, Fan Hanjie is loyal to old Chiang, and will not go to the public to smash the portrait of old Chiang himself, so as not to be beaten by people with ulterior motives and cause trouble for himself.
There is also a point of controversy, judging from the photograph of Fan Hanjie himself being captured, when he had a long beard and white hair and sideburns. But Fan Hanjie in the play has a very clean shaved beard, and will not have a long white hair beard after being captured, which is a small loophole.
Wei Lihuang who "grumbled"
In the early years, Wei Lihuang was also one of the five tiger generals of Lao Jiang, good at leading troops in combat, and was deeply loved by Lao Jiang. Wei Lihuang fought with the Red Army in his early years, and the two sides fought more fiercely. In order to commend Wei Lihuang's military exploits in "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army, Lao Jiang deliberately renamed a county "Lihuang County."
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wei Lihuang was also a famous general with outstanding merits; his relationship with the Eighth Route Army was not bad, and he funded millions of rounds of ammunition, hundreds of thousands of grenades, and other rich weapons and ammunition.
By the time of the Liberation War, Wei Lihuang was gradually not trusted by Old Chiang Kai-shek because he was partial to our army. Since Chen Cheng could not stay in the northeast, Old Jiang immediately sent a telegram urging Wei Lihuang, who was far abroad, to come to the northeast to preside over major military and political affairs, which showed that Old Jiang felt that Wei Lihuang was capable of turning the tide and cleaning up the mess in the northeast for him.
From the new version of "Armageddon", we see that Wei Lihuang's appearance is not very passable, the whole person seems to be a little fat, bloated, which is good, after all, not every role will use special actors, so the cost is too high. In terms of language and behavior, Wei Lihuang in the new version of "Armageddon" is begging for there all day, saying here, frowning bitterly, without a bit of the aura of a famous general, like an air bag.
Historically, since Wei Lihuang succeeded Chen Cheng and took charge of the northeast, he himself still had considerable prestige in the northeast. Wei Lihuang had his own propositions, he put forward sticking to the main points, concentrating his forces near Shenyang, Jinzhou, and Changchun, refusing to go to war; judging from the current situation, although Wei Lihuang's method was not the best policy, it was not the next policy, and he strived to maintain the situation in the northeast and not let the situation deteriorate again, which was also correct.
In the new version of "Armageddon", Wei Lihuang did not rescue Jinzhou, did not cooperate with military operations, and acted like an "undercover" of our army, making people feel that he had no role and was completely helping. In fact, as the supreme military and political commander of the Nationalist army in the northeast, Wei Lihuang's face of Old Chiang Kai-shek's overstepping command was more of a feeling of helplessness and inability to turn the tide of loss, rather than complaining everywhere.
In the new version of "Armageddon", in addition to Wei Lihuang and Fan Hanjie, who are somewhat biased in historical figures, the main characters such as Lin Zong and Song Meiling are also unsatisfactory, and compared with the old version of Armageddon, the gap is still not small. It is worth mentioning that in the new version of "Armageddon", the words of the five members of the central group are too profound, a bit like memorizing lines, under normal circumstances, leaders will not be so serious when they speak privately.